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FLIGHT JULY 2, 19S
The lowest powered machine in the King's Cup Race is the A.N.E.C. monoplane with 30 h.p. Anzani engine,which has been entered by Maj. J. Savage, and will be flown by Mr. "Jimmy " James.
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S the lowest-powered machine entered for the
King's Cup Race, considerable interest
attaches to the little A.N.E.C. monoplane
entered by Major J. C. Savage, of sky-writing
fame. In the competition this machine
will be piloted by Mr. " Jimmy " James,
who thus, curiously enough, has changed
over from the fastest machines which
this country possesses to the smallest
in the race around England. Mr. James
will, perhaps, be best remembered as the winner of several
Aerial Derbys and as a pilot of fast-racing machines
generally. The machine he is flying in the King's Cup
Race is the same that he flew in last year's Lympne com-
petitions for light 'planes. In that competition his
A.N.E.C. monoplane, built by the Air Navigation and
Engineering Company of Addlestone, Surrey, did not get
an opportunity to show what it could do, but it is believed
that considerable improvements have been made in the
British Anzani engine, and that now this engine will be
likely to prove much more reliable. It is certainly a very
stiff proposition to put before an engine of 30 h.p. only,
but if the machine does succeed in covering the whole of the
1,608 miles, the credit will be all the greater.
The A.N.E.C. monoplane is a semi-cantilever machine,
with short wing struts supporting the two halves of the
monoplane wing. Three-ply is used extensively in its con-
struction, but the wing is fabric covered. It was designed by
Mr. W. S. Shackleton, who has since become chief designer
to Wm. Beardmore & Co., for whom he designed a very
similar machine, the " Wee Bee I," which won first prize
in last year's competition for light 'planes.
NTERED by Lieut.-Col. J. Barrett Lennard-,and to be piloted by Mr. H. H. Perry, the
Airdisco-Avro is a standard Avro biplaneof the famous type 504, which has had
almost innumerable engines fitted, andwhich has reached the type number 504 N.
The Airdisco-Avro is, however, an AircraftDisposal Company version, and is fitted
with one of the 120 h.p. " Airdisco "engines. These engines, it may be re-
collected, are R.A.F. engines re-designed by Major Halford,who has succeeded in increasing their power from about
90 h.p. to 120 h.p., without impairing their reliability.Already the " Airdisco " engines are establishing a reputation
for themselves, and as they are of a power very convenientfor school work they should become very popular. The
Avro machine itself is so well and so favourably knownthroughout the world that there is little need to give a
description of it here.
Concerning the entrant and pilot, both of whom are wellknown in British aviation circles, it will suffice to say that
Lieut.-Col. Barrett Lennard is a director in the AircraftDisposal Company, while Mr. Perry is one of the A.D.C. test
pilots at the Waddon factory of the company.
It is, of course, impossible to forecast how any givenmachine and engine will fare in the race, but provided the
handicapping is accurate, the Airdisco-Avro should do well,and there is reason to believe that its engine will not be
found to give any trouble at all. Also Mr. Perry is an ex-perienced cross-country pilot and should have no difficulty
in flying a very good course, a matter of the very greatestimportance in a race around England.
VJ ;The Airdisco-Avro is a standard Avro biplane, but fitted with 120 h.p. Airdisco engine. The machine has beenentered by Colonel Barrett Lennard, and will be piloted by Mr. H. H. Perry
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